Kuldeep Paul

AI assistant user numbers

Usage figures stated by the companies themselves, in earnings calls, keynotes and official posts, rather than third-party traffic estimates. Each figure is dated, since these numbers move every quarter.

Compiled by , data aggregatorUpdated 21 figuresDownload CSV · JSONMethodology

1.2BChatGPT weekly users (Oct 2026)
2.5B+AI Overviews monthly users (2026)
1B+AI Mode monthly users (May 2026)
950MGemini monthly users (Jul 2026)

ChatGPT weekly active users (millions)

Feb 2025: 400; Jul 2025: 700; Oct 2025: 800; Feb 2026: 900; Aug 2026: 1,000; Oct 2026: 1,200400Feb 2025700Jul 2025800Oct 2025900Feb 20261,000Aug 20261,200Oct 2026
ChatGPT tripled its weekly users in 20 months. Source: OpenAI

Gemini app monthly active users (millions)

Jul 2025: 450; Feb 2026: 750; Jul 2026: 950450Jul 2025750Feb 2026950Jul 2026
Gemini more than doubled between July 2025 and July 2026. Source: Alphabet earnings calls
Weekly and monthly figures aren't comparable: a weekly count is always smaller than the monthly count for the same product.
EngineMetricValueAs ofStated bySource
ChatGPTWeekly active users1.2 billionOct 2026OpenAIopenai.com
ChatGPTWeekly active users1 billion+Aug 2026OpenAImiraa.io
ChatGPTWeekly active users900 millionFeb 2026OpenAImiraa.io
ChatGPTPaying consumer subscribers50 millionFeb 2026OpenAImiraa.io
ChatGPTWeekly active users800 millionOct 2025Sam Altman, DevDay 2025technologychecker.io
ChatGPTWeekly active users700 millionJul 2025OpenAIopenai.com
ChatGPTWeekly active users400 millionFeb 2025OpenAItechnologychecker.io
Google AI OverviewsMonthly users2.5 billion+May 2026Google, I/O 2026digitalinformationworld.com
Google AI OverviewsMonthly users2 billionJul 2025Sundar Pichai, Q2 2025 earningstechcrunch.com
Google AI OverviewsMonthly users1.5 billionApr 2025Google, Q1 2025 earningsrank.ai
Google AI ModeMonthly users1 billion+May 2026Elizabeth Reid, Google I/O 2026blog.google
Google AI ModeMonthly active users (US and India)100 millionJul 2025Sundar Pichai, Q2 2025 earningstechcrunch.com
GeminiMonthly active users950 millionJul 2026Google, Q2 2026 earningsbusinessinsider.com
GeminiMonthly active users750 million+Feb 2026Google, Q4 2025 earningsbusinessinsider.com
GeminiMonthly active users450 millionJul 2025Sundar Pichai, Q2 2025 earningstechcrunch.com
PerplexityQueries per month780 millionMay 2025Aravind Srinivasdemandsage.com
Microsoft CopilotPaid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats15 millionJan 2026Microsoft earnings callcomputerworld.com
Meta AIMonthly users across Meta apps1 billionMay 2025Mark Zuckerbergorganikpi.com
Brave Search (Ask Brave)Daily AI Answers users15 million+Sep 2025Bravebrave.com
Kagi AssistantPaying members75,353Sep 2026Kagi live statsstack.liuhuo.org
Amazon Rufus (retired)Customers who used Rufus300 million+Dec 2025Amazonstackline.com

Where an official figure was only available via secondary reporting, the linked source is the article that quoted it.

About this dataset

What it covers

Usage figures for AI assistants and AI search features, as stated by the companies that run them: weekly and monthly active users, queries, subscribers and paid seats.

How it was built

Figures come from earnings calls, keynotes, official blog posts and executive statements. Third-party traffic estimates are deliberately excluded. Where an official figure was only found in secondary reporting, the linked source is that report.

Limitations

Companies choose which metric to disclose, so figures aren't comparable across products: weekly users are always fewer than monthly users for the same product, and some figures count reach rather than active use.

Columns in ai-user-numbers.csv

engine
Engine slug (see the engine reference)
metric
What the number counts
value
Figure as stated
asOf
Month the figure refers to
statedBy
Who stated it
sourceUrl
Where it was reported

Questions

How many people use ChatGPT?

More than 1.2 billion people use ChatGPT each week, according to OpenAI in October 2026. That is up from 400 million weekly users in February 2025 and 800 million in October 2025.

How many people use Gemini?

Google reported 950 million monthly active users for the Gemini app in its Q2 2026 earnings (July 2026), up from 450 million a year earlier.

How many people see Google AI Overviews?

Google says AI Overviews reach more than 2.5 billion monthly users (2026), and AI Mode passed 1 billion monthly users by Google I/O in May 2026.

Analysis using this data

  1. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

How to cite this data

This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:

  1. Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
  2. Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/user-numbers), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
  3. Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
  4. Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
  5. Cite the original source for single figures when you quote one reported number; it is linked in every row.

In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's AI assistant user numbers (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). AI assistant user numbers [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/user-numbers

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "AI assistant user numbers." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/user-numbers.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "AI assistant user numbers." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/user-numbers.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026usernumbers, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {AI assistant user numbers}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/user-numbers}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

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